The Press., 1887-05-26
STAFFORD SPRINGS, CONN. MAY %, 1887.

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 It was very good Sunday talk that Mayor Hewitt gave to the brotherhood of locomotive fremen last Sunday. He took for his theme the abolition of poverty, and among other good things he spoke of him. self as follows = 1T
 Forty years ago, beginning life as a poor boy, thought I would join a society found a society ready made to my hands, l did not have to search for it. Curiously enough, the object of the society was exactly the same object which is now proclaimed as something new. It was society for the ab- clifton of poverty. I was poor and I said : Il will do what l can to abolish slavery" And what poverty did set out to abolish ? My own poverty. The whole object of the social organization, the whole constitution of society has no other object but that. If every man will study and work intelligently to abol- ish poverty in his own case, it will disappear from the face of society.
 The other speakers were MT. Charles A. Dana of the Sun and Chauncy M. Depew. Mir. Dana spoke in much the same vein as the mayor, deprecating the efforts of for eign agltators and theorists to interfere with the freedom of the individual citizen and to extend unduly the powers of the general government. He said among oth- CT things :-
 
 live without labor. At present many men have to work long hours. You have to work, 1t may be, ten or twelve hours day. work fourteen. My friend Depew here works may be eighteen or twenty. You locomotive fire men may work ten hours day. But there is large part of the population of this country whose labors are not limited by any such rule. The farmers labor fifteen or sixteen hours ev- cry day. l know many of them. was brought up farmer and I know something about them. do not think that the average farmer can at present make both ends meet without working fourteen or fifteen hours a day, Until the results of science have gone further and made it possible for the farmer to live on six or eight hours labor day. how can the rest of you expect to live on those hours ?
 MT. Depew also made an admirable ad- dress, from which we take the following:-
 The two greatest anti-poverty societies I know of are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Flremen. You can't abolish poverty by spout ing. You may pass resolutions against the smallpox and the measles, but the smallpox and the measles wi I come just the same They tell you that the New York Central rail- road earns $34, ,000, 900 year, and that that money goes to the bloated capitalists. Does it :? There is $12, ,000, ,000 goes for wages, ,SSIO, GOO, 900 goes for supplies, $8, ,O0O, ,O00 goes for taxes, interest, etc. Finally you find the capi- talist has out of his $34 100000 only $3, 500, GOO to bloat on, and when you consider how many there are to share it they don't bloat much You would t think they were bloat- ing much if you could stand in the presidents room and hear what they expect. One tenth of the labor of the country is employed on the railroads. There are 22, ,000 men employed by the New York Central, and over one-half |of them have been there twenty years. be- Ilieve that length of service should add to Q employees should have preference in filing vacancies si sf4f 1s5T&1s ESfaf